Tinder messages disappeared? Get them back without compromising your privacy

by Cate Butnaru

Tinder is part of IAC -- one of the most diversified groups of companies on the internet -- and is one of the most popular dating apps, right next to OkCupid and Bumble.

The most fascinating aspect of Tinder’s approach is that it crunches billions of entries per day and applies machine learning to understand online dating behaviour and optimise matching algorithms. 151 thousand images and 1.6 billion finger movements make a great playground for predictive analytics and deep learning in dating.

Tinder recently introduced a new algorithm that alternates the photo first seen by others when you show up on Tinder. The app then notes each response as others swipe on you and reorders the photos to show your most popular ones first.

Tinder messages gone? No problem.

For most people, however, Tinder is fun, fast and quite addictive. It’s easy to chat, set up casual dates, and see who’s reciprocating interest. Moreover, now you can see what songs someone has played and if you have loads of friends in common, which is always great for IRL matches, right?

Recover lost Tinder messages with iPhone Backup Extractor

We're human beings, and we more or less equally crave romantic attraction and casual flirting. And Tinder is the perfect place to get both.

Sometimes, one message leads to a coffee, which leads to getting to know someone, which leads to meaningful relationships. Which leads to you needing to recover that first flirty kiss you sent to your better half?

Other times, you’re smitten with somebody you can’t stop chatting before you find the courage to ask them out.

Wait, umm...

And lastly, sometimes messages disappear from your Tinder account, and instead of settling with the fatalistic explanation that “it wasn’t meant to be”, you do everything you can to recover conversations, phone numbers, and cute flirts. Yes, disappearing Tinder messages is unfortunately a trend, but it has nothing to do with fate.

iPhone Backup Extractor recovers Tinder Messages

The past few weeks we’ve pushed the envelope with Cupid and technology, and added a new feature: Tinder messages recovery. From a technical perspective we’ve found a way to recover messages, which might be useful for all of the above reasons.

It’s important to note that access to Tinder messages is possible only for account holders: we don't encourage or facilitate any form of privacy invasion.

Tinder message recovery is possible with any iCloud account. iPhone Backup Extractor downloads your backups from iCloud, finds your Tinder messages, and recovers them. Even if you un-match someone, you can recover the conversation.

The team investigating messages recovery from iTunes and iCloud backups will continue to find a way of recovering deleted or disappearing messages as well. Stay tuned!

It's a match!

Try getting your Tinder matches back with this trick instead

Whilst we are busy running rocket science experiments 🚀 for you, we’ve dug into ways you could get a second chance at swiping right on someone, and we did find a solution. Quoting Quora:

If you un-matched someone or accidentally swiped left on someone you actually liked or changed your mind about, quickly delete your Tinder account, delete the app off of your phone, then reinstall and recreate your account.

Tinder themselves suggest logging out and in again, although it's not clear how well that works.

When Reincubate first starting working with iCloud and CloudKit technologies, the team was the first in market to provide such a solution to regular iPhone users, but also to investigators, integrators and businesses. Today, iPhone Backup Extractor supports iCloud data recovery for popular apps, including WhatsApp, Viber, Tinder and Photos. Other data that can be recovered with iPhone Backup Extractor include encrypted backups, restrictions PINs, and deleted iCloud photos from the iCloud Photo Library.

It's our mission to help people have ownership over their data, deleted or lost, and one way we contribute towards that goal is by enabling consent-based access to one’s backups and data at any time.

by Cate Butnaru,
last updated
March 21st, 2019

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